A while ago, we wrote an article about how to install Yaourt in Arch Linux. Yaourt is a pacman wrapper that can be used to install packages from AUR. For those who don’t know about AUR, It is a community driven repository that contains 44,000+ packages. Today, in this tutorial, we will discuss another Pacman front-end called Packer. Packer is a wrapper for both Pacman and AUR. Like Yaourt, Packer will also reduce the complexity of manually compiling and installing the packages. It allows you to install, update, search, and show information for any package in the main repositories and in the AUR. For other commands, such as removing packages, use pacman.

Now, you can start using Packer to install, update, upgrade packages as the way you do using Pacman. For other operations such as removing a package, use Pacman. Packer usage is same as Pacman. Refer the following guide to know how to use pacman. You can use the same guide for packer also.

You can always use Packer as regular user. You need not to use sudo in front of every command. When packer needs administrative permissions, It will ask you to enter the root password.

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